AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

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AMD Radeon R9 295X2

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1226MHz

Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +30%

5.733 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT

4.394 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

Radeon RX 560 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Mar 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1074 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1226 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

28

-

2816

Shading Units

1792

176

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.23 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.394 TFLOPS

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.394 TFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

274.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

150W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 LE1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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